I can’t manage online evening prayer this evening so instead I’m going to offer online Compline at 9.30 pm.
Usual details for access, just a different time.
Liturgy here: http://thurible.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/compline-ordinary-time1.pdf – starts on Page 22 for Saturday.
I wondered how you were fairing in the city that’s reported to have voted Yes.
Just to let you know, you can best guage what it means in your neck o’ the woods, but that form of salute is still used in a number of countries in the world and isn’t associated in any respect with Nazism. That salute is common in Mexico, as it was in the US before WW2.
http://rationalrevolution.net/images/salute2.jpg
However, they have since opted for the right hand flat over the heart and we get flack from our northern neighbors for our “Nazi” salute to our flag.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Civil_Salute_Mexican_Flag.jpg/477px-Civil_Salute_Mexican_Flag.jpg
The gesture they were making here is entirely associated in local minds with the nazis.
I gather that there were EDL/SDL members present, in addition to the usual Lodge suspects. This may go some way to explaining the Nazi salutes.
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